What does fork means in python

Technically, a forked process gets a copy of the original process’s global memory, including open file descriptors. Because of that, global objects like files start out with the same values in a child process, so all the processes here are tied to the same single stream. But it’s important to remember that global memory is copied, not shared; if a child process changes a global object, it changes only its own copy. (As we’ll see, this works differently in threads, the topic of the next section.)